A good day for amusing/great domain names. @arcalinea has the amazing http://possibility.space (!) And @andy_matuschak's http://insight.porn has just gone live (not at all NSFW).https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1174789824554815488 …
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I think he was referring to philosophical systems—Schopenhauer, Hegel. The impulse if you’ve got one is to fit everything into its structure, even if that means whacking square pegs into round holes and falsifying phenomena in an attempt at explaining everything
Interesting. I think of this as a very productive impulse in science! Eg you learn about gravity on earth and nearby... then use that explanation to try to explain everything everywhere with it (galaxy rotation curves! the Big Bang! etc). Very revealing.
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Yes... ish... I think maybe it works better in fundamental physics than elsewhere. Most other sciences are masses of small overlapping theories without big general principles
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Ah, I should have said what I meant more clearly: both Newtonian gravity & general relativity break badly in those situations. That's why they're so revealing. Ditto black holes.
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Yes! To me the operative word is "will"—it's the *will* to a system which distorts. Trying to use gravity to explain more things: great! Failing but persevering because you think there's something there: great! Failing but trying to *will* reality to fit the system: not so great!
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I don't know. I think the line between your last two points is often hard to draw. Sometimes people make the darnedest things work.
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